There are lot of ideas and teachings on the subject of generation curses. Many of these ideas come from outside of Scripture, but there are some aspects that are valid. We are going to look at what the Bible says about these so-called generational curses. Are they something you need to be concerned about?
The first thing we must do is define what is meant by generation curses.
To begin with, a curse is God bringing judgment [the ultimate being separation from God] on someone or something. We see the first curses right after the Fall of Adam and Eve. God cursed the ground and because of its separation from God it would be barren instead of bursting with life. It would require hard work to become fruitful again [Gen. 3:17-19]. God also cursed Satan in the form of the serpent. Satan is forever separated from the blessing of God and is non-redeemable [Gen. 3:14]. A curse can also be when someone is asking for God's judgment [or simply trying to place God's judgment] on someone or something. The effective curse separates a person, thing or situation from the life and blessing of God thereby bringing pain, destruction and death. God's curses are always effective and man's curses are effective only when they are in agreement with God's curse [Num 23:8, Pr. 26:2].
A generation, in Scripture, is considered to be 40 years. A generation curse then is a judgment of God on sin that is passed from father to son to grandson, etc.
Where Does The Idea Of Generation Curses Come From?
Generation Curses From These Verses?
The first thing, that I find ironic, is that the Bible never uses the word "curse" in relation to these punishments. Because it appears to be punishment over generations we use the word "curse" and call it a generational curse when it would be better to describe it as "accumulative punishment/consequences" rather than the horror of the curse bringing destruction, death and separation from Life Himself.
God is perfect justice. He does not allow criminal law to punish one person for someone else's crime [contrary to many ancient law codes]. God is certainly not going to do it Himself.
Note: If you study out both the Leviticus and Lamentations passages you will discover that they were suffering from the "ancestor's sins" only because of their stubborn refusal to repent and abandon them - of which God gave them many opportunities.
God promised Abraham the land of Israel, but he could not have it yet. God, in mercy, was still allowing the Amorites time to repent and abandon the sins of their fathers. In His foreknowledge, God knew they were not going to repent and in the fourth generation the accumulative judgment would fall.
Again from the life of Abraham, Abraham twice told a half lie to save his life. He said his wife, Sarah, was his sister. She was, in fact, his half-sister, but he deliberately failed to mention that she was also His wife [Gen. 12, 20]. His son Isaac saw that his father escaped with few consequences so he did the same thing [Gen. 26]. Only in Isaac's case it was a complete lie - Rebekah was a cousin not a half sister. The consequences increased as lies and deception became common in his family. Isaac's son Jacob then deliberately lied to his father to steal from his brother…and had to run for his life from his brother's wrath and spend years being deceived and mistreated by his uncle. This first sin grew through the generations along with the consequences, but each generation voluntarily embraced the sin for themselves.
Read through the kings of Judah. You will discover when the king was a good king - following in the ways of his father David - he was blessed by God regardless of the sinful nature of his physical father or mother. When he was a bad king - following in the ways of Ahab - he reaped the accumulative justice of God regardless of how righteous his physical father had been.
Third, as mentioned above, this applies to those who hate God and continue in the sins of their parents. This means when you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour those ties were forever ended at the Cross. You are no longer under the accumulative consequences of your ancestors!
Fourth, the teaching on generational curses usually points to some sort of demonic activity in the family and in carrying the sin down the generations. Read the above verses in context - along with any others you may find. Do you see any mention or indication of direct demonic involvement?
Fifth, keep reading! What does it say?
Follow me here. You [if you have accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour] are in Christ. You are part of "those who love me and keep my commandments." When you accepted Jesus, you died to your past. You received an entirely new genealogy. Through Christ Jesus you are related to every righteous man, woman and child who has ever lived.
What does God say about blessings? They pass on to, at least, a thousand generations or about 40,000 years! [Earth has only been around about 6,000 years so far.] Every blessing God has ever poured out has an accumulative effect coming down to you and passing through you to the generations to come. Not only are you receiving the favour of God from past righteous generations, but also you are passing it on to future generations.
Do I Need To Be Concerned About Generational Curses?
No in that, as we said previously, you are in Christ. Any evil from your past is cut off. It is gone. It is dead. You are a new creation in Christ. God smiles on you as His child. Any generational sins or accumulative judgments were paid in full by Jesus Christ on the Cross. You are FREE. You can enjoy God's presence, love and blessing.
Yes in that we both know that our experience does not fully match the Truth because we have to grow. As we grow in our knowledge and relationship with Jesus Christ our experience comes more in line with the Truth. It takes time and it is a process that Jesus walks with us through. Sins of the father no longer have a hold on us unless we truly still believe that they do. In which case, we will live as if they still bind us. In other words, we will live a lie from Satan and act accordingly. In all honesty, there are lies in all of our lives that have not yet been exposed and dwelt with. That is part of the Christian life and maturity…learning the Truth in every area of our lives and choosing to walk in it. Keep a heart soft and open to the Holy Spirit and He will guide you step-by-step through the process. For stubborn sins [whether they were in your physical ancestors or not] you may need Godly counselling and help from trusted Christian friends, your pastor or even a professional counsellor. This is one reason God put us in His Church, His family, so we could help one another walk in victory and reach our potential in Christ.
The sins of the fathers can also be clue to possible weaknesses that we may have. Being aware of what has tripped up our physical ancestors can help us be on our guard as we may have a similar weakness. For example, if alcoholism has tended to run in your family, then total abstinence may be a wise plan to avoid being ensnared. We all have weaknesses and being aware [not afraid] of them can help us avoid unnecessary temptation and failure.
If you have a sin that you simply cannot seem to defeat, then you may have something in your past that needs to be brought to the Light and dwelt with in Christ or if the Holy Spirit brings something to your mind, then deal with it right away and put it behind you. But don't go rooting around in your past or family tree trying to find things! Keep your eyes on Jesus and walk steadily toward Him.


Dr. Waltz received his early training in behavior analysis at Western Michigan University where he received a BS. His training at Temple University (Ph.D., 2004) focused on basic behavioral processes and his training at the University of Nevada, Reno (Ph.D., 2011) focused on the application of behavioral principles to diverse clinical populations. Dr. Waltz worked for the State of Nevada providing clinical behavior analysis services for individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities prior to leaving for his APA accredited internship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Prior to his appointment at EMU, he was a research fellow at the Center for Mental Healthcare Outcomes Research in the Veterans Health Administration where his research focused on the implementation of evidence-based mental health care.
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It was a great time! This was also the first time we had our boat off the dock since we landed in Southport in May, so we really enjoyed being on the water again.
This is a great mooring field, well protected, and the moorings are in very good shape. The guy who owns them comes around and takes trash and he was really helpful. Highly recommended.
Monday, it was back home and starting on boat projects again. We are about 4 weeks from leaving to go south, and the pressure of getting everything done is starting to mount!
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First Christian Church (also known as Maasdam's Christian Church) is a historic church at 824 Franklin Street in Pella, Iowa.

It is a small, one-story brick church, was built between 1858 and 1862.  As of 1869, it was named the Soul Sleepers Church.  During the 1880s it held the Pella Y.M.C.A.  As of 2022 it is the site of an independent bookstore, Pella Books.

Its significance includes that, according to its NRHP nomination:"...it calls attention to religion and social history among the Pella Dutch. During the 19th century, attempts to unite the various stripes of Dutch Protestantism in the United States, evolving since the 17th century, failed and resulted in schism and the formation of two separate denominations. This national schism exacerbated a religious volatility already simmering in Pella. First Christian Church calls attention to this strife within the otherwise homogeneous Dutch-American community, as religion became the focus of local controversy during the 1850s and 1860s. These controversies centered on Domine Henry P. Scholte, the pastor of the original flock of Dutch Reformed settlers in Pella, and divergent forms of worship then emerging among some of the settlers. Elder Jacob Maasdam, a charismatic layman, led one of these latter groups. His adherents built the First Christian Church, where they worshipped until circa 1869, splitting Scholte's flock, which built another church.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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Reformed churches in Iowa
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
Gothic Revival church buildings in Iowa
Churches completed in 1860
National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Iowa
Churches in Marion County, Iowa
Dutch-American culture in Iowa

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The first part of the speaking section will include a task that measures speaking skills in an informal setting. There will be a conversation role-play situation (an example of the interpersonal mode). Students will be asked to interact with a recorded conversation. There will be five or six opportunities for the students to answer. Each response will be 20 seconds in length. Students will have time to read an outline of the simulated conversation and the instructions before participating in the simulated conversation.
There will be increased contextualization and guidance for the simulated conversation.
The student will initiate some parts of conversation.
Recognize cultural elements implicit in oral texts.


kors k as teranoid? Guess he ditched DJ TEKKA.
Didn't they try that in BM3/US? Or were those free scratch parts?
Also, She is my wife.
BM3 and KBM both had hold notes, yes, so it's not actually a DJMAX thing.
Scratching in a specific direction.
Guess they're trying out a bunch of stuff with this installment.
I guess he looks kinda cool, but that was super random.
"Backspin scratch" is apparently just a scratch hold where you have to turn it the other way at the end.
The new mechanics are pretty intuitive, so maybe it's not a big deal.
I knew it. I had it pegged.
I expect the main screen to be all white with the logo and then zoom in to the opening to be all black and blue.
First the lolis, now the mecha fans.
At least it's cool this time.
I thought last time was more cool than this time.
I obviously know that, but he's still the first non-human character in the series.
TouDX - Reimu, she is mai waifu.
Also, maybe they'll reveal that he's not actually a robot, just a masked awesome.
He looks like Shi-Low, except for the head. Who knows?
Are you sure that his non-human??? What if he might be just dude full of LULZ under that puppy mask??
Geez, we've already gone over that.
It's Michael a la Mode reborn as a celestial awesome dude.


Hank Hanegraaff is the President of Christian Research Institute (CRI), the largest apologetics ministry in the world. He is also the host of the Bible Answer Man radio broadcast and a well-known author of many books, including Christianity in Crisis and Has God Spoken?. He headed a long-term dialogue and investigation of the teaching and practices of the local churches and the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. In the process, he has visited churches and church members in many countries covering three continents.
The local churches are an authentic expression of New Testament Christianity. Moreover, as a group forged in the cauldron of persecution, it has much to offer Western Christianity. In this respect three things immediately come to mind.
First is their practice of prophesying—not in the sense of foretelling the future but in the 1 Corinthians 14 sense of exhorting, edifying, encouraging, educating, equipping, and explicating Scripture. In such a practice, constituents are corporately involved in worship through the Word. Second is their practice of pray-reading (in addition to Bible study) as a meaningful link between the intake of Scripture and efficacious communion with God in prayer. And third is their fervent commitment to the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19).
If the early Christian church had one distinguishing characteristic, it was their passion to communicate the love, joy, and peace that only Jesus Christ can bring to the human heart. As we become entrenched in an age of esotericism, it is essential that genuine believers in all walks of life emulate this passion—a passion I have personally witnessed as I shared in fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ from local churches in places as far away as London, England; Seoul, Korea; and Nanjing, China.
In sum, along with Christians from a broad range of persuasions, the local churches are dedicated to both proper doctrine (orthodoxy) and proper practice (orthopraxy). As such, they march by the maxim, "In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, and in all things charity." While we will no doubt continue to debate secondary issues this side of the veil, I have no doubt that we will spend an eternity together growing in the knowledge of the One who saved us by faith alone, through grace alone, on account of Christ alone.
Hank affirms the orthodoxy of Watchman Nee, Witness Lee, and Living Stream Ministry, as well as their practices, and how he has personally been blessed by their emphasis on Christian Living.


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Q: how to "get" an upper layer from an existing (layerDrawable) background of an imagebutton? I am creating an android app for playing Chess.
I have used layerDrawable to display 2 layers of background (one layer to display a square of the Chessboard and another for the piece on it).
But the problem is when I want to move the piece from the existing square, I only need the upper layer (the piece) to move.
Is there any way that I can "get" the upper layer.
I tried getBackground() method, but it only returns a drawable, not a layerDrawable.

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The Robert G. Ingersoll Birthplace Museum in Dresden, NY has undergone a major overhaul, with expert assistance from the Exhibition Alliance, and reopened in 2014 with new displays and a new design. During this reconstruction and reworking of the displays, new ideas on how to display the various items were discussed frequently with the Exhibition Alliance and Tom Flynn, director of the museum. The Little Blue Book printing plate, shown here, is the original plate used to print Ingersoll's Crimes Against Criminals, LBB no. 139.
Little Blue Books, if you are not familiar with them, were the brainchild of Emmanuel Haldeman-Julius back in the early 1900's (see my blog here for more about them). CFI Libraries has a vast collection of them, and recently, I have been going through the LBB collections, verifying what items I have, rechecking the duplicates, and creating an extensive inventory of them. I have checked numbers 1 through 900 so far, and have about 2,300 books that are unique in some way. For example, some are printed later with a title change or a union printing label, or possibly have a copyright date or a copyright date removed. EH-J publications have unique problems when trying to classify them; there is professional library literature that discusses these issues. There are also several websites that I know of, plus a whole bunch of collectors who have extensive knowledge about these books.
I started going through all the LBB because I was asked by Tom Flynn for an original Crimes Against Criminals for display with the copper plate. The ones we had on hand were not suitable, and I was not able to find a decent one for display right away. After going through all the items, I was finally able to find a few that fit the criteria needed for the display. Tom returned from the museum with the photo seen here and the LBB is now part of the museum collection.
Crimes Against Criminals is another of those Ingersoll items that has many different editions. In our Rare Book Room, we have more than a few, but a calf-skin Roycrofter's edition from 1906 is my favorite.
I am not sure if the museum will be doing an update of their virtual tour soon, so the only way you will be able to see both plate and book together is here, or by visiting the museum itself.


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MANIERA gallery commissions architects and artists to develop furniture and objects for use, offering them an excursion beyond their usual practice. As architects often have a close relationship with the visual arts and artists are often inspired by the spatial environment, MANIERA intends to crystalise these proximities into new design proposals. More than just furniture, the objects issued by MANIERA are a deliberate search for collisions between the realms of architecture, design and art.
Above all, MANIERA wants to bring a young, up-and-coming generation to the fore, but also show established and renowned figures in a new way. The most important elements in this involve a personal language and writing, a conceptual mode of thought, and an authentic and idiosyncratic way of working.
Although founded in 2014, MANIERA gallery already has a strong presence on the global design market, quietly and successfully changing prevailing notions of furniture design and production.


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Q: How to read throughput-sampler sink values in spring-xd Stream definition:
"http --port=9400 | throughput-sampler"
I've sent the START and END/ STOP payloads but I'm not sure how to read out the throughput values.
It doesn't show up in logs, so I'm wondering how do I access the values. There seems to be no documentations detailing it either.
Appreciate any help!

A: This looks like a bug; add
log4j.logger.org.springframework.xd.integration.throughput=INFO

to the
xd/config/xd-singlenode-logger.properties

or
xd/config/xd-container-logger.properties

depending on which topology you are using, and you'll see...

09:56:16,358 1.1.0.SNAP  INFO pool-10-thread-10 throughput.ThroughputSamplerMessageHandler - Throughput sampled for 2 items: 0/s in 5584ms elapsed time.

The default endMessage is END.


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SpiceBox: Vegan Indian cuisine paying homage to British curry houses
By Diana Buntajova
Grace Regan, the founder of vegan Indian curry house SpiceBox, talks about her passion for the food, spices, inspirations and colours of India.
Tucked away in Walthamstow lies a "little warm paradise", as Grace Regan describes it. The soft light coming through the restaurant brings life to the bright colours of fuchsia and orange interior, while in the kitchen the spices breathe in flavour to the plant-based food. SpiceBox is not just another curry house, but a vegan curry haven inspired by the spices, colours and warmth of India.
Growing up, Regan, SpiceBox's founder, explored everything that traditional Indian cuisine has to offer. Regan fondly remembers eating homemade food made by her aunt Dolly, learning how to cook curries and travelling around India.
She traces her passion for food and the country to these small moments that inspired a big change in her life. Four years ago, she moved back to London from Silicon Valley to entirely change her career from pursuing the tech dream to cooking curries. "I literally started cooking curries in my home kitchen and serving them from my front door," recalls Regan, who came back to the capital keen on doing something in the vegan food space.
Cooking her way through street food festivals, she perfected a fully vegan menu ready for the next step. And that's how SpiceBox came to be a year-and-a-half ago.
Turning the menu vegan
Drawing inspiration from her aunt's home-cooked food and flavours she tried in India, she set up on a mission to "merge British high street favourites with traditional Indian cooking".
"With British curry house being an institution and an icon of the high street, I always wanted to pay homage to the traditional British curry house, but also introduce a fresher, more modern spin," says Regan.
SpiceBox offers vegan spins on classics like vegan chicken tikka masala and korma, but also an award-winning red lentil tadka dal and a shroom keema made out of soy mince, mushrooms and walnuts for a "really meaty" taste. The menu also features an array of sides, rice, naans and desserts.
The core of SpiceBox is driven by inspiring people to eat more plant-based food by showing them how easy it is. "Another huge reason why I chose Indian is that it's a really great way to use foods that are vegan because a lot of it's just naturally plant-based anyway," says Regan. "And the spices are such a great way of getting flavour out of vegetables."
SpiceBox's main focus is vegetable-based dishes, but you will also find soy chicken and mince on the menu. In the past, it also featured a faux mutton special.
Regan notes that, apart from the spices, the taste of the curries is elevated by organic ingredients like basmati rice imported from India, soy mince, flour and lentils.
What separates SpiceBox from "the classic curry house" is an original Indian take on the brunch menu. The speciality dish is the "doffles", with both savoury or sweet options: crispy chicken with tomato and coconut chutney, spicy jackfruit beans and Bombay potatoes, or salted caramel ice cream and bananas.
"During the street food days, we came up with this idea for dosa waffles. Dosas are really thin Indian pancakes made from fermented rice and lentil flour. And we decided to put that batter into a waffle machine."
The brunch menu also features a south Indian brunch thali with korma, tadka dhal and paratha, and a THIS Isn't Bacon naan roll.
Every little bit counts
While Regan is ambitious, helping and sharing are more important to her than business. She decided to open SpiceBox in Walthamstow because of its "community feel" within London. "It's almost like a little town or village," she says.
She also launched a YouTube channel to give back and share some of her food passion with others. "A lot of the brand is not just about selling things to people, it's about helping them learn how to cook vegan food at home," Regan says.
To support the physical and mental wellbeing of her staff she created a wellness budget, "where everyone has an allowance to spend on activities they think [they] will benefit from".
SpiceBox shares the same values when it comes to sustainability. For takeaway, customers pay a one-off £10 fee for a reusable tiffin set to reduce waste. Then, they can bring it back and swap for a new one filled with "steaming hot curry".
It also recycles about 75% of all the waste generated onsite and the rest is sent to First Mile, a power plant facility, where it's burnt to produce energy.
The environment was one of the main reasons why Regan turned vegan. Her plant-based path started with pescetarianism, and after researching and trying "amazing vegan food" during her time in America, "from an environmental and ethical point of view, being vegan made a lot of sense".
SpiceBox is currently looking for a second site. "We want to roll out more curry houses and we're going to be launching retail products very soon," says Regan.
She adds: "I think you can really inspire change if you get the fundamentals right, which, in the hospitality business, is the service, atmosphere and the food. We'll always be a vegan playground but we don't really intend to scream shouts about it. It's more about being pretty great and therefore inspiring people."
Diana Buntajova
Diana is always looking for the environmental aspect of every story. She is interested in health and lifestyle, hoping to point to issues that are often overseen. Diana has explored topics including B-12 deficiency in the vegan diet, fears about exotic skin farms sparking another pandemic, and the Oreo controversy. Currently studying Journalism at City University of London, she enjoys everything to do with visuals especially photography. Creative and detail-oriented in both her visual and written work. On a mission to find the best vegan cheese and can't resist beyond meat burgers.
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For many years now those clever fellows that we know as plant breeders, have been working hard to prove that the impossible is indeed possible. For decades we have been told that there is no such thing as a black tulip and the best offering for years has been the rather purple-ish Tulipa 'Queen of the Night'.
It now seems that all that all their hard work has finally come to fruition with the introduction of the Tulipa 'Paul Scherer', a cultivar successfully bred by Dutch grower Geert Hageman in 1986, and produced from the group known as 'Triumph tulips'. This group is particularly prized for their beautiful, traditional "tulip" flower shape and sturdy stems, which allows them to stand up well to bad weather.
Unlike the majority of tulips bulbs Tulipa 'Paul Scherer' will not need a cold period in order to initiate flowering so when purchased in the autumn as pre-packed dry bulbs. They can be planted either directly in the garden or a flower pot. Plant Tulipa 'Paul Scherer' bulbs in a hole that is three times as deep as the height of the bulbs, and about 4-5 inches apart.
Tulipa 'Paul Scherer' received its Award of Garden Merit (AGM) from the Royal Horticultural Society in 2012.
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Here's something you might not know: If you're meeting a magician for breakfast, you must never order soup.
The act is very much like using an umbrella to kayak stormy waters or dressing in clown costume to mow an unsightly lawn. It is simply not done.
Some say the soup rule originated with Binkler Jaminoo, a famous slight-of-hand master burned to death on stage by a cup of chicken noodle, (even if magical texts describe his death as the result of a Ring of Fire trick and an assistant gone wrong). The more practical no-soupers explain there's nothing behind it other than a courtesy to the magician with whom you're about to dine.
Here's something else: Freddie Rustler didn't care.
To Freddie's surprise, the magician gave no indication of tomato-soup disapproval. Instead, he smiled for several long seconds at the one-browed waitress, who raised her eyebrow in arched frustration and tapped her pen on the tabletop, waiting for an order.
She harumphed. Freddie sighed. Magicians are so stupid, he thought. Ugly and stupid. This one smelled of carpet cleaner and wet rabbit, with no hair to call his own save a small blotch of brown perched below two wispy lips now readying to speak.
Here's another thing: Freddie Rustler was not often impressed with magicians. However, this one seemed a little more … magical than the rest. Maybe it was because he carried no wand in his belt loop, attempted no card tricks at first greeting or gave no inkling that he would, at any moment, pull a coin from Freddie's ear.
"I know what you're thinking," said the magician, with the assertive air of one who did.
Even if his face worked to get the girl – was her name Misty? Sissy? – it had no such persuasive effect at the breakfast table today. The magician appeared bored at the prospect of being so near to Freddie's warm-blonde-haired, gemstone-green-eyed beauty.
Here's the truth: Freddie's mind didn't care.
"Exactly right!" He exclaimed with faux-admiration. "My gosh, you're a magician and a psychic!" Freddie didn't mean to sound so very sarcastic when he said this but he couldn't help it; sarcasm was an ever-present tone in his voice, stashed there for use in negotiations when to be unflustered meant to win.
As he finished the story, the magician placed a curved strip of hair, matching exactly the one still sitting above Delilah's eye, at the top of the spilled salt pile between them.
Freddie nodded and the magician's forehead-wrinkles went from two to three.
Here's Freddie's definition of competitive: He was the only supplier of magical materials within 50 miles of this breakfast place and marked his items up tenfold (and then some), in order to accommodate demand. Capes worth $10 sold for hundreds, harnesses were priced at no less than $250, and tigers, always old and lazy, cost a magician upwards of $50,000, or double if the creature was white.
Freddie tried to respond, to defend whatever lies he might've told, but with a final lick to his mouth, the magician vanished from right where he sat – without gray smoke or ceremony – and took Delilah's eyebrow with him, leaving only a few salt grains behind.
It was Delilah who pushed one and one half pieces of marmeladed toast beneath his chin and Freddie could only stare at the missing hair above her eye. Delilah blushed and put a hand to the place where a brow should've been.
"Yes, I know. Sort of strange. I had a little accident with the hot wax last night," she said, nuzzling her chin against her neck.
"Sure, sugarbottom," Delilah said, setting the check on the table.
Freddie reached for the money in his pocket, ready for this meal to end.
But here's one last thing: Freddie's wallet was gone, replaced by a handful of hot tomato soup.


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The 2017 Hemp Road Trip is Planning on Reaching 30 States in two Months
Following a successful 2016 tour around the U.S., the group behind The 2017 Hemp Road Trip are trying to raise funds – so they can raise awareness about the power of hemp across the country.
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"The number one myth is that hemp is a drug like marijuana – that it gets you high," says Rick Trojan. Earlier this year, on the first leg of his 2017 Hemp Road Trip, Rick found a lot of misconceptions about the plant. "Many farmers don't even know they can receive more subsidies than with corn,"explains Rick, "It's a new option for many states, for example, in the Carolinas it could be used as construction material."
The 2017 Hemp Road Trip is planning on reaching 30 states in two months. Beginning in the South, the bus of advocates will trek up the coast to the Northeastern states, then across the Midwest, up to Montana and Washington, then back across Oregon, Northern California, through Utah and back home to it's home base of Colorado.
"Get ready for another adventure in industry building!" says Rick Trojan, Founder at Hemp Road Trip, Co-Owner at Colorado Cultivars and Board Member at Colorado Hemp Industries Association.
"We had a successful 2016 on the road," says Trojan, "visiting 40 states and meeting thousands of common sense folks that understand the value of an agricultural crop like Industrial Hemp!"
In 2016 America lent the following support toward progess for the hemp plant"
– 10 new House sponsors
– 6 new Senate sponsors
– 7 new States legalized hemp (32 total)
– 6 new States planting in 2017
– USDA Certified Domestic Hemp Cultivation
– Nearly 10,000 acres cultivated nationwide
– Over 20,000 acres registered for 2017 season
You can help keep it going with a donation at the trip's gofundme.
Per the funding site, The 2017 Hemp Road Trip Spring Tour will cover 30 states, including states with NO hemp legislation (TX, UT, LA, MS, OH, MT, ID). They'll also be hosting events and activating people to engage their legislators and help bring an end to federal prohibition.
"We need your support!," says the website for donations, "This is a BIG country and taking a bus and crew on the road is expensive. Please donate and help us stay on the road and continue this important journey!"
The Hemp Road Trip says they greatly appreciate any donation, no matter how big or small.
"Let's keep this bus rollin, so that the message of this beneficial crop can spread throughout the country, and the United States can finally get #Back2OurRoots," reads the summary of the trip.
You can join in on the journey too, by following them us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where they will be posting pictures, videos, and status updates.
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employing the popular new "hard gospel" sound, and introducing listeners to the inimitable and bloodcurdling shout of Clarence Fountain. If jubilee groups like the Golden Gate Quartet or the Famous Bl.
Image caption The Fisk Jubilee Singers performed gospel music in Paris in the 1870s For Jean. Much later, in the 1950s, one of the most celebrated gospel groups of all time, the Golden Gate Quartet.
Rejoice & Shout, director Don McGlynn's history of gospel music – going all the way back to the. or the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi or the Staple Singers or the Golden Gate Quartet. Many of the.
It is that spirit that will be celebrated Monday at the Gospel Music Heritage Month Foundation's "Evolution of Gospel" concert at the Kennedy Center. Journalist. with the Golden Gate Quartet, Mitch.
while "Music" features classic gospel. There are time-honored favorites ("Working on a Building," "Precious Lord Take My Hand," "Farther Along," "Lift Every Voice and Sing"), seminal artists.
his page contains a complete listing of each and every track included in the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour collection. There are currently a total of 1659 tracks available for your listening enjoyment.
On the car radio, let down by pop and talk ("politics," he says, "is uuu-gly"), he finds a gospel show and relaxes into. and a wordless vocal sample of the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet from 1938. An.
Welcome to Blues & Rhythm! Blues & Rhythm, The Gospel Truth is published 10 times a year. Each issue contains in-depth articles, ground breaking interviews, discographies, regular feature columns and all the latest blues news, CD, DVD and book reviews.
Influenced by jubilee-style gospel groups that they heard on the radio such as the Golden Gate Quartet, Fountain and several teen-aged friends started their own group, which they called the Happy Land.
A chronological listing of the 89 Homecoming videos and 21 Compilations with track listings. 110 Homecoming videos produced by Bill Gaither featuring the Homecoming Friends singing Southern Gospel.
One of gospel music's greatest innovators, the Golden Gate Quartet formed in Norfolk, Virginia in 1934. The group's jubilee style is renowned for its unusual and intricate harmony singing, swinging rh.
"In My Time of Dying" is a song that already had a long history by the time Led Zeppelin recorded their version, which was included on their 1975 double-LP Physical Graffiti. With its roots in spirituals dating before the twentieth century, this song has been recorded under a.
Blackwood Brothers Quartet. DAYWIND CD. SWEET SONGS ABOUT HEAVEN. $15.00. Goodbye Eqypt (Hello Cannanland), Swing Low Sweet Chariot/Swing Down Chariot, Sweet Songs About Heaven, That's What Was Good About the Good Old Days, It Is No Secret, I've Heard About A City/Walk Dem Golden Stairs, Declaration of Dependence, That's What Heaven Will Be, Someone To Care, The.
Gospel music is a music genre in Christian music. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial.
Of all the important American roots music — jazz, blues, country, soul — the least well known is surely gospel. The market. developed directly out of the jubilee quartet performance style of groups.
The late Johnny Cash, who made more than a dozen gospel albums, will headline the list of 2011 inductees into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in January. of Fame website, the Golden Gate Quartet.
It's with such a background in the Gospel and Old-Time Religion of the Southern Tradition that I approached Dust-to-Digital's recent anthology of sacred songs and sermons, Goodbye, Babylon. juxtapo.
Feel uplifted by the performance of a Vocal Group Hall of Fame quartet coming to Tel Aviv this August. At the beginning of August the Israeli Opera House will be filled with the captivating sound of g.
The Cathedral Quartet, along with black gospel artists like The Golden Gate Quartet," the release stated. "However, their presentation is new and fresh and very polished! Young and old alike are drawn.
On eight of the tracks he is accompanied by Virginia's Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, one of the most revered gospel groups of the time. Before these sessions, he had recorded only as a solo performer.
A North Carolina gospel group from the 1930s, Mitchell's Christian Singers were a bridge between the restrained jubilee a cappella of the Golden Gate Quartet and the hard postwar gospel performers. Th.
Gospel and R&B artists Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Tommy Edwards (perhaps best-known for his 1958 hit "All in the Game"), Pharrell, the Jarmels ("A Little Bit of Soap") and Major Harris ("Love Won't.
Guy Warren of Ghana (or Kofi Ghanaba) (4 May 1923 – 22 December 2008) was a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz and as a member of The Tempos.
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His backing singers give him wordless and very rhythmic phrases that push along his lead vocal, similar to the way the American Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet pushed along its gospel tunes. Prince Zulamk.
Similarly, "Love & Blessings" is blessed by the presence of the legendary Golden Gate (Jubilee) Quartet, via its 1938 gospel recording, "Golden Gate Gospel Train." Tickets for Simon's surprise club da.


Nice article and that is indeed how i percieve it personally too. If the addiction of a person become more and more a personality, there is no real connection anymore..the experience that i have is also..you cannot try to change a person if he/she doesn't see the problem (that was the first thought/experience that i had), it doesn't help to stay in the vibes when you are sensing that the addiction has too much energy and control in a persons life..
it Does help to set bounderies for yourself. What do YOU feel when the situation is like that, can you handle it to see this person ' living' the addiction? a lot of people and closed ones do that too..and struggle to take a stand in the moment of fear of losing the person they love..and most of the time, they understand why someone is addicted..
So glad to read this response dear sis. It's amazing. I wrote it with the intention that it may invite others to share from their experience, and here you are sharing this! What you are sharing is very clear, and because it came from personal experience, it is much more tangible. May it help many who are struggling with addiction, or struggling with loved ones who do. Thank you so much!


I very seldom vote Democrat, however, if I were to vote for any Democrat this election cycle it would be Obama. He may be an evil CFR member, but I find his positions on several key issue far better than any of the other Democrat candidates, especially health care, and we know he'll pull troops out faster than Hillary.
If the Republican's go with McCain, I won't consider him and may go with Obama… of course I probably would go with the Libertarian candidate regardless, but I rather have Obama than McCain or God forbid, Guilani. Romney or Huckabee will get me to vote Libertarian not Democrat for sure. Ron Paul of course I would vote for.


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Water pollution is a major problem in China. This is also the case for the Taihu lake. Main causes of water pollution are industry, domestic sewage and agriculture. Successful measures to reduce pollution from industry and domestic sewage have been implemented, and therefore non-point source pollution from agriculture becomes the major source for the water pollution. The agriculture in the Taihu lake basin causes overload of nutrients in the water body due to excessive use of fertilizer inputs, which are higher than needed to support the high yields.
The aim of this study was to perform an ex-ante integrated assessment of the impact of agricultural land use policies on nutrient pollution and on sustainable development at large at farm type level in Taihu Basin. Sustainable development is needed to improve the situation of the Taihu Lake Basin, as policies improving the environment will not be effective if they are not economically and socially acceptable.
In order to assess the impacts of the policies on agricultural sustainability in Taihu lake basin, the bio-economic farm model FSSIM (Farm System SIMulator) is used. FSSIM developed in the European context, was changed to fit to the Chinese case study. As database for input and outputs of agricultural activities TechnoGIN (Technical coefficient Generator for Ilocos Norte province) was used.
FSSIM-China has been programmed such that in each run the base year (2008), baseline (2015) and policy scenario (2015) are simulated. The base year exactly reproduces the observed activity levels in 2008, due to the PMP (Positive Mathematical Programming) calibration method. The data used are based on field survey of 320 farmers in 2008. Changes in results for the baseline and the policy scenario (2015) are dependent on the elasticity of the crop-management combinations in the model, which is a part of the PMP procedure and the height of the prices, costs and yields which are estimated by trends of historical time series.
Four policy options were used to assess the effect on sustainability: 1) FF (formula fertilizer) use 2) Stimulation of SSNM (Site Specific Nutrient Management), 3) stimulation of MT (mechanical transplanting) and 4) buffer zones. The results show that the use of FF application will be higher in the baseline than in the base year. Just applying fertilizers with a different contribution of N, P and K is however not enough to reduce nutrient leaching, and therefore improved SSNM including change of timing and amounts should be stimulated. In case of stimulating SSNM, then the FF application as practiced in the base year will decrease compared to the base year and the use of SSNM will increase. The stimulation of SSNM is a good option for improving the water quality of the Taihu lake, while still being economically and socially acceptable. It is only difficult to stimulate the use of SSNM, due to the high need for training and education of the farmers while labour is limited. Extra subsidy for SSNM could help to stimulate the use of SSNM and could prevent the decrease the food production, because farmers are going to cultivate more single crops compared to rotations due to good off-farm opportunities. The stimulation of MT does not help to improve the water quality, but the use of MT machine is very important for farmers, because it saves labour. Saving labour is so important, because in most cases working off-farm leads to a higher income than working on-farm. The fourth policy option is the buffer zone. Buffer zones have at farm level little impact, but compensation payments are nevertheless too low. Buffer zones are expected to have a large impact on the water quality. Scale enlargement is tested as a policy scenario. Scale enlargement did lead to more mechanisation on the farm if labour was limited. If labour was limited then the environmental outputs decreased due to cultivation of fewer crops, if labour was not limited the environmental outputs did not decrease in the policy scenario compared to the baseline.
The model chain TechnoGIN-FSSIM has proven to be useful to ex-ante assess agricultural policies at farm level in Taihu Basin. Constraints for the adaptation of technologies, and impacts on environmental, economic and social indicators are evaluated, allowing to better target policies.


MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - The outer bands of wind and rain from Hurricane Florence began lashing North Carolina on Thursday as the monster storm moved in for an extended stay along the Southeastern coast, promising to drench the properties of 10 million people with immense amounts of water.
Florence's top sustained wind speeds dropped from a high of 140 mph (225 kph) to 110 mph (175 kph) as its outer rain bands approached the North Carolina coast early Thursday, reducing the storm from Category 4 to Category 2, but forecasters warned that the enormous wind field has been growing larger, raising the risk of the ocean surging on to land.
As of 8 a.m. EDT it was centered about 170 miles (275 kilometers) east-southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina and about 220 miles (355 kilometers) east-southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, moving northwest at 12 mph (20 kph). Florence's hurricane-force winds were blowing 80 miles (130 kilometers) from its center, and tropical-storm-force winds reached up to 195 miles (315 kilometers) from the eye.
The National Hurricane Center's best guess was that Florence's eye would blow ashore as early as Friday afternoon around the North Carolina-South Carolina line. Then, it will likely hover along the coast Saturday, pushing up to 13 feet (nearly 4 meters) of storm surge and dumping 20 to 30 inches (50 to 75 centimeters) of rain on both states, before slogging over the Appalachian Mountains.
Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters said Florence eventually could strike as a Category 1 with winds less than 100 mph (160 kph), but that's still enough to cause at least $1 billion in damage. Water kills more people in hurricanes than wind, and the rain and storm surge will make Florence extremely dangerous.
President Donald Trump both touted the government's readiness and urged people to get out of the way. "Don't play games with it. It's a big one," he said at the White House.
It's unclear exactly how many people fled, but more than 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to clear out. Airlines canceled nearly 1,000 flights and counting. Home Depot and Lowe's activated emergency response centers to get generators, trash bags and bottled water to stores before and after the storm. The two hardware chains said they sent in a total of around 1,100 trucks.
In Virginia, where about 245,000 residents were ordered to evacuate low-lying areas, officials urged them to stay in safer locations despite forecast changes showing Florence's path largely missing the state.
With their entire neighborhood evacuated in Wilmington, North Carolina, David and Janelle Garrigus planned to ride out Florence at their daughter's one-bedroom apartment in Charlotte. Unsure of what they might find when they return home, the couple went shopping for a recreational vehicle.
"We hope to have something left when we get home," she said. Three other Southern raceways also opened campgrounds to evacuees.
With South Carolina's beach towns now more in the bull's-eye because of the shifting forecast, Ohio vacationers Chris and Nicole Roland put off their departure from North Myrtle Beach to get the maximum amount of time on the sand. Most other beachgoers were long gone.


Send some pics of my T150. It has a american Bigbore kit, megacycle race cams and some customizing. The bigbore kit is on its second rebore and makes about 880 ccm. It is very fast! Sadly I have a japcrap front end.


This photograph depicts a group of Samsui women sitting on the back of a pickup truck. This is usually the form of transport by which they are either ferried to or from work at the construction site. Title devised by Library staff. Date of creation estimated.


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Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
Preliminary design for a chair and designs for a chair, sofas and a confident sofa, 1779-1780, as executed (5)
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[8] Design for a chair, 1779, as executed
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Design of a Chair for Sir A. Hume Bart. / 86 (pencil)
Adelphi / 3.d April 1779
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The Jazz Baroness
Michael Bonner
Mini-bio of the great Thelonius Monk...
Mini-bio of the great Thelonius Monk…
Even in the mid-20th century, a genius still needed a patron. For Thelonious Sphere Monk, the "high priest of bebop", that patron was Panonica De Koenigswarter, born into the über-rich Rothschild family. On a trip to NYC, a friend played her Monk's "Round Midnight" and, on hearing the tune, 'Nica' experienced a damascene conversion to jazz.
The interchange between high society and perceived low-life is a defining feature of bohemian life, but even in this context, the relationship between Monk and Nica was unusual. The pair were not lovers (Monk remained devoted to his wife Nellie) but kindred spirits, floating around NY's vibrant jazz scene, encountering kindly bemusement on the way. Cats, in short, dug her; she was hip.
Some folks who didn't dig the Baroness' downward mobility, however, were her family. Nica's redefinition of her life vexed the Rothschilds, who will still not discuss it. And this is where The Jazz Baroness comes unstuck. Made by Hannah Rothschild, Nica's niece, and someone you would think literally born to tell this story, the film never gets over one hurdle – the fact that family members who might lift the veil on Nica's enigma refuse to talk, even to another family member. "What are you doing this for?" one unseen relative asks, crushingly. "Is it just for the publicity?"
Compared to Clint Eastwood and Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, The Jazz Baroness isn't flattering. There's simply not enough Nica to go around, so this becomes a mini-Monk bio, handicapped by Rothschild's lack of empathy with jazz and its players (an interview with Sonny Rollins is particularly painful), and her fatuous attempts to draw parallels between the lives of someone of unimaginable wealth and someone whose father was born a slave.
Unwittingly, the film's about access (something that, as Withnail & I had it, is "free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't"). Where doors flew open for her aunt, for Rothschild, alas, they remain stubbornly closed.
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Secondary wing feathers from many birds are suitable for herl bodies. These are the second set of large feathers on the wing typically set towards the rear of the wing and closest to the body. They are somewhat symmetrical in width and commonly used for wings on wet and dry flies. Don't confuse these with primary feathers, which are the stiffer, asymmetrical feathers at the front and outside of the wing. The leading edge of the primaries is where you'll find biots used for tails on stonefly patterns and bodies on some mayfly recipes.
Turkey, duck, and goose wings have the longest and easiest to use feathers, but other bird wings will also work. The feathers from pheasant, grouse, and partridge wings have some amazing colors, and if you have material that's long enough for a fly, use it. Wing quill fibers are tough when it comes to strength and their ability to interlock—it's actually one trait of the feather that helps birds fly. They make nice bodies, but I don't find it works as well for tail material. Natural and dyed colors are available, and mottled turkey and dyed over mottled turkey looks great on nymphs.
Shoulder feathers from waterfowl and large upland birds have some good fibers for wrapping. Dyed goose shoulder, a substitute for swan Nashua feathers, is very long and easy to work with. It mostly comes in bright colors and is used to make married-wing Atlantic salmon flies. Natural Canada goose and most duck shoulder feathers have a nice medium-dun color, but some ducks also have some beautiful, dark, iridescent feathers.
Hook: Dai-Riki 075, sizes 10 to 18.
Weight: Silver bead, size to match hook.
Legs: Chukar tail tips split from the wingcase.
Herl bodies can be fairly fragile, so reinforcing them is a good idea. Reverse wrapping with wire, thread, or mono is quick and usually adequate. Wire is my favorite rib, and with all the colors of wire available it's easy to color coordinate or accent the fly, too. You can also twist herl together with thread, either in a single strand or as a dubbing loop, to make a thicker, more secure and durable body.
If you want your pheasant-tail variation to resemble the traditional Al Troth style fly, use your body material for the wingcase and legs. Tie in the fibers so the tips point over the abdomen, make a thorax and then pull fibers over to create the wing case. Secure the fibers down with thread, split them in half and pull back and secure half to each side of the hook shank for legs.
WEIGHT: Copper bead, size to match hook.
TAIL: Mallard flank dyed wood duck fibers.
ABDOMEN: Mallard flank dyed wood duck fibers.
WINGCASE: Mallard flank dyed wood duck fibers.
LEGS: Mallard flank dyed wood duck fibers (the tips of the wingcase).
Another angle worth pursuing when tying substitute-herl fibered bodies is to mix colors. In the often never-ending search for a specific shade for a pattern, we sometimes go crazy looking for a specific color in a hundred fly shops or go way over the edge trying to dye materials. An easier solution is to mix different colors of fiber together on the hook and then wrap them together.
If you want a fly with a brown-olive hue, mix and wrap olive and brown fibers together. You can achieve almost any shade or barring effect using this process. Mixing and wrapping fibers is easier to do with the same base feather, but as long as the fibers are similar in length and texture, it can be done.
Expanding the range of the proven Pheasant-tail Nymph is a great way to fool more fish and have fun experimenting with previously unused feathers. The range of colors and patterning is almost endless and opens the door to other imitations and attractors. Give the other herl a whirl.
Scott Sanchez is the shop manager at JD High Country Outfitters in Jackson, Wyoming. He won the first Federation of Fly Fishers Iron Fly Contest in 2014.


Franklin joined the sorority as an honorary member in 1992.
Sybrina Fulton joined the Miami alumnae chapter of the organization.
Their new program is creating possibilities rather than pain.
This Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc line of 1987 is out here flourishing.
These are the positive images we like to see.
Alyson Rae Lawson is out her repping for black institutions.
The Omega Psi Phi and Delta Sigma Theta chapters at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) have upped the ante on a long standing tradition of scholarship, education and charity.


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Crimea and Kashmir Viewed Through a Western Prism of Hypocrisy
In early August India deployed 38,000 troops in Indian-administered Kashmir to join the half-million already there. (There are two Kashmirs, administered respectively by India and Pakistan, following post-colonial dissent concerning accession of the territory.) There was then a massive clamp-down after a decree of 5 August annulled Article 370 of India's Constitution which guaranteed the rights of Kashmiris to freedom under local laws. The region was subjected to military occupation, with central rule imposing unprecedented restrictions on movement and banning communication with the outside world. These have been enforced for over six weeks.
Associated Press managed to report some incidents, however, including one when "Indian soldiers descended on Bashir Ahmed Dar's house in southern Kashmir on August 10… Over the next 48 hours, the 50-year-old plumber said he was subjected to two separate rounds of beatings by soldiers. They demanded that he find his younger brother, who had joined rebels opposing India's presence in the Muslim-majority region… In a second beating at a military camp, Dar said he was struck with sticks by three soldiers until he was unconscious." They released him but "on August 14, soldiers returned to his house… and destroyed his family's supply of rice and other foodstuffs by mixing it with fertiliser and kerosene."
Although there was a petition on 12 September to President Trump by four US Senators "to immediately facilitate an end to the current humanitarian crisis" in Indian-administered Kashmir, there has not been one syllable of condemnation by the administration in Washington. London remained silent also. These energetically vociferous supporters of human rights have voiced not the slightest criticism of India for its persecution and imprisonment of innocent Kashmiris.
If this sort of thing had happened in Crimea there would have been massive coverage in the Western media and loud and penetrating censure and denunciation of Moscow by politicians, pundits and the ever-attentive US military.
Western media always refer to the 2014 accession by Crimea to Russia as 'annexation' by Russia of the land that is historically Russian, whose citizens are predominantly Russian-speaking and Russian-cultured, and whose government held a referendum which overwhelmingly indicated preference for accession to Russia. One would not know it from Western media, but the referendum was witnessed by 135 international observers from 23 countries, including the Austrian MP Johannes Hübner who said that "The view we get from the American and European media is very distorted. You get no objective information. So we decided to come here to have a look at what's really going on and see if this referendum is credible". Which it was.
In contradistinction, there has been no referendum in Kashmir, as required by international legislature. In January 1949 the UN Commission for India and Pakistan announced that "The question of the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India or Pakistan will be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite" and the BBC notes that "in three resolutions, the UN Security Council and the United Nations Commission in India and Pakistan recommended that as already agreed by Indian and Pakistani leaders, a plebiscite should be held to determine the future allegiance of the entire state."
But it seems that Western governments are given to condemning referendums when they don't suit their purpose and ignoring UN Resolutions to hold them when that action would be embarrassingly inconvenient for the country involved.
There's no freedom in Kashmir, and instead of enjoying a modicum of self-governance and being permitted a referendum on its future, Indian-administered Kashmir is subjected to what is called 'lockdown'. Mobile phone networks and access to the internet have been blocked for over six weeks — and there hasn't been an official syllable of disapproval in Washington or London. Certainly, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said on 9 September that she is "deeply concerned about the impact of recent actions by the government of India on the human rights of Kashmiris" and also "alarmed" about "restrictions on internet communications and peaceful assembly, and the detention of local political leaders and activists" — but no Western government paid the slightest attention. Nor did the freedom-loving Western mainstream media, which is always alert for violations of human rights around the world. Well — in some parts of the world.
They ignore the savagery of Indian troops and the denial of basic freedoms in Indian-occupied Kashmir, but would they do that if such excesses were evident elsewhere? Imagine the uproar, the feverish surge of self-righteous passion, the fiercely critical condemnation of brutality and suppression of democracy if anything like this occurred in Crimea. The US and Britain would go berserk with sanctimony.
On 12 September Reuters reported that "Authorities in Indian Kashmir have arrested nearly 4,000 people since the scrapping of its special status last month, government data shows, the most clear evidence yet of the scale of one of the disputed region's biggest crackdowns… More than 200 politicians, including two former chief ministers of the state were arrested."
But Mr Trump didn't say a word. He was otherwise occupied, tweeting insults, and while repression was surging in Kashmir was at a G-7 meeting in Biarritz where he referred to Egypt's tyrannical Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as "my favourite dictator" which tells us a great deal about the outlook of the US President. It is not surprising that Trump doesn't want to criticise Indian Prime Minister Modi, the director of despotism in Kashmir, as he considers that "Prime Minister Modi and I are world leaders in social media." His final G-7 tweet was that he had "Just wrapped up a great meeting with my friend Prime Minister Modi of India at the G-7 Summit in Biarritz, France!" so it seems that the twitter soul mates approve of ultra-authoritarianism and that Trump isn't going near the Kashmir human rights' button anytime.
Britain's Prime Minister Johnson is desperately trying to avoid the catastrophic outcome of quitting the European Union and has little time for wider affairs, so cannot be expected to say anything definitive about the atrocities in Kashmir other than his pronouncement of 9 August that the situation was "serious." His stance on Crimea is set in the Western mould of 'annexation' and he is rabidly anti-Russia, so there is no chance of a movement to dialogue by the United Kingdom. The rest of Europe just wishes the Kashmir crisis would go away, and hangs on to the 'annexation' story about Crimea, where there was no 'lockdown', persecution or detention of innocent civilians at accession time. Imagine the furore if there had been use of pellet guns in Sevastopol.
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Kumi Naidoo, urged the Indian government "to act in accordance with international human rights law and standards towards people living in Jammu and Kashmir, including in relation to arrests and detentions of political opponents, and the rights to liberty and freedom of movement" and pointed out that "The actions of the Indian government have thrown ordinary people's lives into turmoil, subjecting them to unnecessary pain and distress on top of the years of human rights violations they have already endured."
Will there be any action at all by Washington and London? No: not a hope. They'll continue to bounce up and down about Crimea, where there is liberty and freedom of movement, while keeping silent about persecution in Kashmir.
They are looking at the world through a prism of hypocrisy.
By Brian Cloughley
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Elevated levels of the male hormone testosterone during pregnancy may explain why some women have difficulty breastfeeding, say Norwegian researchers.
They said their study of 180 women showed a clear relationship between higher levels of testosterone during pregnancy and low rates of breastfeeding at three and six months, BBC News reported.
The researchers said testosterone may have a negative impact on the development of glandular tissue in the breast, which would affect a mother's ability to breastfeed.
The study appears in the journal Acta Obstetricia and Gynecologica Scandinavica.
An investigational oral anti-obesity drug called Qnexa appears to be an effective treatment for sleep apnea, according to drug maker Vivus Inc.
A study of 45 obese men and women found that those treated with Qnexa for 28 weeks had 69% fewer sleep apnea events than those who took a placebo. The patients who took the drug lost an average 10% of body weight (about 23.8 pounds), Dow Jones Newswires reported.
"We know that substantial weight loss can significantly improve sleep apnea. These phase 2 data suggest that Qnexa, if approved for this indication, may be a promising treatment" for sleep apnea, said Leland Wilson, chief executive of Vivus.
The company has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the drug as a treatment for obesity, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
A meeting to consider an application to use the antidepressant Cymbalta to treat chronic pain has been canceled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because it wants time to review new information about the proposed use.
The meeting to review drug maker Eli Lilly & Co.'s application had been scheduled for Jan. 28, the Associated Press reported.
In November 2008, Lilly withdrew an application after FDA reviewers raised questions about the methodology and dosing in some of the company's clinical trials.
A new application submitted by Lilly last summer included data from studies on using Cymbalta to treat chronic pain caused by osteoarthritis and lower back pain, the AP reported.
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the unofficial Family homepage and online archive … daft, I call it
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"When Roger Chapman's body and voice vibrate he is not putting it on. He does not put his arms in the air for any theatrical reason. It's more like his limbs are being snatched at by some power outside him. The concert hall managements do not try any harder than the band's own manager to stop him smashing equipment. He won't stop because he's not putting it on for effect. It is not even particularly spectacular. Roger just does it. In fact he smashes a lot more stuff than the audience ever sees, including his own limbs."
– United Artists promotional material
Roger Chapman and his band Family have recorded five albums and seven singles. Chapman has become a star in his native England. Three of his singles have scored high on the English charts. But America has never embraced him. Now. Family is on a new label and has just released an album entitled Fearless. United Artists has brought the English star into New York for a two-day whistlestop to meet the press in the hopes that the press would finally drum up interest in the group's next American tour. Rumor had it that Chapman would be a strange and difficult chap to deal with. That surprised me. After all, Fearless had not been difficult to deal with. It did not seem the work of a difficult man. Fearless is an album whose major concern seems to be music and not noise. Chapman's piercing voice possesses one of those engaging quivers that rivets the listener to the material at hand. The album contains a number, "Larf and Sing," which can only be construed as Family's tribute to the Swingle Singers, and it also contains a truly haunting song entitled. "Between Blue and Me." The album is the work of an eminently listenable English band. Chapman, sprawled on his bed at the City Squire Inn, did not look difficult. He stared out the window at Broadway. He was wearing a teeshirt and jeans. A button advising the world to smile more was pinned to his belt. Hardly the choice of a difficult man. I ask Chapman about the United Artists' publicity pitch. "We just get up on stage, and I sing as well as I can," he comments. "I like to prove to myself and to other people that I sing well. I like to enjoy myself. What I do on stage depends upon how high I get while I'm up there. But I don't break instruments. We've always been concerned with musical values.
Chapman speaks in a quiet voice. He has a gentle smile. He's a real pussycat. Why hasn't his band ever caught on in America? Chapman is philosophical: "I just don't know," he says wistfully. "Does it seem like strictly European music to you? We just haven't had too many offers in America even though our albums have all done well in England. Our first American tour was a disaster. We had a lot of hangups. People left the band. There were hassles all over the place. We were never able to settle down. We bombed out badly. We had a lot more peace of mind the second time around." On the first tour. the day before the band was supposed to play the Fillmore, Family's bass player Rick Grech announced that he was leaving Family to play with Blind Faith. At the Fillmore, Chapman tossed around a mike stand which almost hit Bill Graham. Grech was replaced on the tour by John Weider of the Animals. Weider, who is a violinist and acoustic guitarist, had to struggle to master the bass on such very short notice. On their second tour, some publicists insisted on associating Chapman's Family with Manson's family. "Anyone who is as small-minded as that has to be a prick," Chapman says succinctly. "We didn't learn about it until we got to Boston and a DJ friend told us all what had been going on. There was a very big attempt to put it down." Yes, Chapman is honest. direct. and cooperative. However. his words imply that hassle and Family are not unfamiliar to each other. There are some acts that always seem to have trouble getting together. I ask him if his band had trouble laying down the tracks of his new album. "We went into the studio with some basic ideas and did our arranging once we were there," Chapman relates. 'Two weeks before we went into the studio we auditioned for a bass player. We actually worked in the studio for two weeks before we had a bass player. We need three months on the road to get our material together. We had to do that three months work in the studio in three or four weeks time. Our problems were just trying to play together. After the album was completed and we listened to the acetates, we got into a car and drove half a mile and we began to freak. We drove back to the studio and sat there for twelve hours. We had become paranoic. We were suspicious about certain tracks. Finally, we didn't change a thing, the tracks we didn't like are the ones that are beginning to do something."
Make up your own minds about Family's "paranoia." I decide to escort Roger on a fantasy trip. "What happens if you do become a super-star?" "As a band we've always done exactly what we've wanted to do. We've lived I he way we wanted to live and that way is pretty much the same way as anybody else. And still. there are always people wailing to put you down. We've been token advantage of. There are so many hassles. We've been done out of bread. Managers have lied to us. Therefore. the only way for us to function is do what we think is best to do. No one is going to make us do anything we don't want to do. I'd like us to gel accepted as a band. We all think we're a really good band and we respect our own music. and it gels to be a drag when your own identity is not known to others. I don't think we will become super-stars; we'd gel paranoid long before that happened. We want people to buy our records and come to our concerts. but finally, the music is the only really important thing." Any short introductory interview always has two obligatory questions: drugs and the rock as revolution routine.
Drugs? "If you can handle them. they're cool. I have the utmost confidence in myself that I can handle what I start up with." Rock as revolution? "That's somebody else's bag and we do not play in other people's bags. We write, arrange. and play our music, and thai's what we do and what we think about. It's a selfish attitude, but I flat's the way it is."
Chapman is so forth right and decent that it becomes almost obscene to prod him any further. We both stare out the window at dirty, busy Broadway. "If's good to be here," Roger remarks softly. "It's good to be anywhere."
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There was a time when flavouring your bait involved nothing more technical than smearing a bit of honey on a piece of bread flake.
These days, bait additives are produced on a grand scale by a multi-million pound industry.
Drawn from real edible products, these liquids are loaded with natural proteins, including amino acids.
Aminos are the organic substances that animals recognise as being a signal leading to food.
Put simply, if they locate the source of amino acids they know that item is edible.
Although natural extracts are not as concentrated as many artificial flavours and can be used at higher dosages, they still deliver a potent attraction.
They can be added to pellets, mixed with water for use with groundbait or used as a soak for hookbaits to be left sitting in.
Although these liquids were first developed for use in boilies by specimen carp anglers, they are great products for tempting almost any fish that swims. Some of the best are pictured.
SUGGESTED RECIPES: Add 20ml-50ml of Nash Pure Liver Extract, Nutrabaits Nutramino, Corn Steep Liquor, Bag 'Em Matchbaits Molasses to the mixing water added to every kilo of dry groundbait. Extracts can also be used undiluted as a soak for hookbaits like corn, boilies, meat and pellets.
These are chemical liquids that have been developed to mimic the smell and taste of different foodstuffs.
There are literally hundreds on the market and they can be used to customise baits, giving your offering a unique appeal.
Hutchinson's and Nash's Chocolate Malt is a classic, as are Nash's Scopex and Strawberry. Pineapple flavours, like Mainline's and Solar's varieties, are also among the favourites.
But here's a word of warning; these flavourings are very strong – often boasting a 1,000-1 concentration level – so you need to use them very sparingly. Half to one teaspoonful of flavour (2.5-5ml) is more than enough to boost a pint of pellets or a kilo of groundbait.
Do not make the mistake of piling more artificial flavour into your bait on the basis that more flavour equals more bites – it doesn't.
Coarse fish have a sense of smell and taste that is hundreds of times better than ours and they can detect microscopic amounts of a chemical dissolved in water. Fish may even be repulsed by a bait that smells too powerful.
If you are using strong artificial flavours your bait should carry a mere whiff of scent rather than a stench.
A good edge over anglers who are only flavouring their baits is to add a touch of flavour enhancer or sweetener to your bait, too. This ensures that your bait doesn't just have a distinctive smell but also has a pleasant taste.
Lots of firms make products that do this job with Solar's Liquid Candy Sweetener and Nutrabaits' Sweet Cajouser being among the most highly reputed.
SUGGESTED RECIPES: Blend 2ml of sweetener with 2.5ml- 5ml of flavour (per kilo of pellets/groundbait or pint of maggots/corn).
Some bait firms have produced powdered bait additives which make up part of the mix itself and release attractors slowly, over a long period of time.
Van den Eynde's Brasem powder is a classic. Sweet and intensely creamy, it is a marvellous ingredient that bream, carp and tench seem particularly attracted to. VDE's Bloedmeal power is loaded with savoury/meaty attractors that can really give your groundbait a special appeal. Tench and carp love the stuff.
Ground turmeric is also a great additive if you want to try a spicy mix for carp and, if roach are your number one target, track down some powered coriander.
Why they like it so much nobody knows – but it works.
SUGGESTED RECIPES: Usually, add 2-4 desert spoonfuls of powder to a kilo of dry groundbait. Some powders are very strong, so be careful not to overload the bait.
This family of flavours is probably one of the most misunderstood yet they are also very useful for anglers who just wish to boost their baits without spending a fortune on blending different potions.
Variously labelled bait soaks, dips or glugs (you 'glug' your bait in these syrupy liquids), they were first designed by carp bait firms to boost boilies.
But they have transferred across to the coarse fishing market where they're used by some of Britain's best match anglers. So, what are they?
These are blends of several different attractors that are fused into one potent liquid that smells good, gives a bait an improved taste and boosts it's food signal. In differing quantities they usually contain flavour, taste enhancer/ sweetener and natural extracts.
While this means they are concentrated and do have a strong smell/taste, they can be used more liberally than a neat artificial flavouring.
Dynamite Baits produce a huge range of these attractors. Some, like the Pineapple Attractant, are heavily flavoured but others, like Source and Spicy Chicken Attractant, contain lots of natural extracts and can boost any bait.
Nash also produces a fabulous range of bait soaks under its Food Dip banner, with the Squid Scopex and Shellfish Sense Appeal having natural extracts with a dash of flavouring.
Mainline's Hookbait Enhancement System range also marries flavours with powerful natural fish attractors and both Mistral Baits' Booster Dips and Bag 'em Matchbaits Natural Attractor liquid will boost your hookbait. Nutrabaits' Bait Soak Complex range is top quality.
SUGGESTED RECIPES: Typically, 10ml-20ml (two to four teaspoons) of glug can be added to the mixing water for a kilo of groundbait or pellets. These liquids can also be used as an overnight marinade for your soft pellets, boilies, corn or meat.
The number of flavours and bait enhancers available to the angler is huge. From liquids to sprays and powders, there is an additive for all occasions.
There is no argument that these additives give you an edge but how do they work and how do you use them effectively?
Flavours work on two levels - instant attraction and long-term appeal.
Flavour on the outer edges of the bait disperses as the dosed bait hits the water, it is the initial 'hit' that draws fish towards your hookbait. Water-based flavours hang low to the bottom, tempting fish like carp, barbel and bream. Oil-based flavours will rise through the water and attract mid-water fish such as roach.
A large portion of the flavour must remain inside the bait, leaking slowly so that it attracts over a longer period of time. It is also important to use flavours or enhancers that boost the taste of a bait. Fish that like eating a particular offering will keep coming back for more, this means your catch rate rises.
mixing water for an even spread.
right is the soaked one.
Cut a tin of meat into cubes, put it in a plastic bag and pour low-concentrate flavour on top.
Trap some air in the bag and shake it to ensure all the meat gets a coating of liquid flavour.
Fridge the flavoured meat overnight to allow the attractor to penetrate the bait.
Get a low-concentrate flavour or bait soak and squirt a teaspoon or two of liquid onto the pellets. Shake the baits to give each one a coating of liquid then leave them to stand for 15 minutes. Soem of the flavour penetrates to boost long term attraction.
Unsoaked pellets (far left) with flavour-doused pellets next to them. In the water some flavour is instantly released, more leaks as the pellet collapses. Don't pour neat concentrated boilie flavours on pellets - they could be over-powering to the fish.
Several pumps with a flavour spray, like this Richworth one, boosts the instant appeal of your corn when it hits the water. Don't add too much flavour to the kernels as it may put the fish off!
Sieve away the maize on the maggots and squirt them with low concentrate flavour.
Rub maize meal inside the container (it stops the maggots escaping) and leave for 15 minutes.
Dust the maggots with fine maize meal - it sticks to the excess flavour and soaks it up.
Rub the maize through the baits to coat them. In water the maize leaks flavour to attract the fish.
These maggots were boosted with Van den Eynde Sweet Scopex liquid and are now perfect for bream, carp, roach and tench.


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